Author: Dean Toda
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Early voting ends today
The days dwindle down to a precious few, and so do your options for voting in the general election. Friday is the last day for early voting, and the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s office has extended hours at two of its three early voting locations. The early voting center at the county clerk’s…
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POLITIGAB: The deciding vote
You – yes, you – could cast the ballot that hands the presidency to Barack Obama or John McCain. Just don’t bet on it. Working with computer models developed by the political analysts at fivethirtyeight.com, Andrew Gelman, a Columbia University professor, figured the odds of the presidential election actually being decided by an individual voter…
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Michelle Obama: ‘I am married to a man that gets it’
Michelle Obama, the wife of the Democratic presidential nominee, drew an ebullient, overflow crowd Tuesday in Colorado Springs, declaring, “The old ways just haven’t worked. Isn’t it time for new solutions?”Obama told her audience at the City Auditorium that her first concern was her two daughters, and described her anticipated role as first lady…
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McCain makes burger stop in Springs
With only 11 days till Election Day, Sen. John McCain made a campaign swing through Colorado on Friday, with low-key appearances in Colorado Springs sandwiched between rallies in Denver and Durango. In the Springs, the Republican presidential nominee visited Springs Fabrication, a maker of precision machined parts, and declared that the health of small businesses…
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Colorado high on candidates’ itineraries
The running mates have run in and run out. Stand by for the ticket-toppers. A week that began with appearances by Gov. Sarah Palin in Colorado Springs, Loveland and Grand Junction on Monday continued Tuesday and Wednesday with Sen. Joe Biden’s visits to Greeley, Commerce City, Colorado Springs and Pueblo. Sen. John McCain’s campaign has…
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Biden pledges to ‘restore middle class’ at Springs rally
Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, ventured into a conservative area of conservative Colorado Springs Wednesday to declare that he and Sen. Barack Obama had two overriding goals: “one, restore the middle class, and two, reclaim the respect America deserves in the world.” Much of Biden’s 35-minute speech, delivered to an overflow crowd…
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McCain still in fight for Colorado
Has Sen. John McCain’s campaign written off Colorado? In a CNNPolitics.com article Monday afternoon, CNN’s chief national correspondent, John King, reported that two top strategists inside the McCain campaign had concluded that their prospects in Colorado were “increasingly bleak.” King said the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign had made no decision to pull its advertising dollars…
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Sarah Palin energizes Colorado Springs crowd
With time running short in the 2008 presidential campaign, Gov. Sarah Palin made a campaign swing through Colorado on Monday, cutting through the gloom of a raw and cold Colorado Springs day with an appeal to “help put the maverick in the White House.” The crowd, which did not fill the 8,500-capacity Security Service Field,…
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Battle for Colorado not over, campaigns say
With the presidential debates out of the way, and with public-opinion polls showing Sen. Barack Obama pulling ahead in Colorado, it’s time to ask: Is there still a presidential race in this state? Republican and Democratic officials in Colorado say Yogi Berra was right: It ain’t over till it’s over. Spokesmen for Obama and his…
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Candidates clash over Iraq, economy
PUEBLO • U.S. Senate candidates Mark Udall and Bob Schaffer clashed repeatedly over Iraq and economic policy in a debate here Monday night. The debate, sponsored by The Pueblo Chieftain and moderated by a member of its editorial board, was in a one-question-two-answers format, eliminating direct exchanges between the candidates, who are vying for the…